Welcome to the Jungle...

[agentx13]

Who: Sharon Carter and the other freedom fighters.
Where: THE WOODS. The big bad scary woods!
When: Day 31
What: Escape attempt numero uno.



Sharon stands facing the forest, standing perfectly still and breathing calmly. One hand rests on her hip with her gun, the other is held in front of her face so she can see the comm. What no one on the comm can see is that she's also holding her knife. You can never be too careful when planning to take on unknown legions of men that had managed to capture the Hulk. And Natasha. And Tony Stark. And her aunt.

And a bunch of kids. And Barton. And a Steve.

Really, it's hard to tell where these people screwed up first. Messing with Sharon? Messing with the people around her? It doesn't matter. Either way, she's tired of sitting around and trying to learn information about them. They may know now as much as they ever will. And that means that they have to fight. As much as Sharon doubts they'll succeed, she also knows that they have to try. They can't just sit around like lemmings waiting for the food to run out.

She studies the gaps between the trees, then the trees themselves. The captives don't control the environment here. Dangers could be hidden anywhere here.

She may have waited too long to try this. People might be too weak from hunger, not at their best.

But they have to try.

No matter what happens, that's what it boils down to. They have to try.

Comments

Meeting Up

[agentx13]

Sharon has chosen the woods between houses 14 and 15 to wait for the others, nearly dead center of the woods. Anyone who wants to stop by for orders/requests that sound an awful lot like orders is welcome.

[theshield_agent]

Phil's there as soon as he can be. He's got is gun and a few knives strapped under his clothes along with a hunting rifle he'd found in the town strapped to his back. He is locked and loaded and ready to find a way to send his friends home.

[hung_garian]

While Gabriel's not keen on orders, he's even less keen on them all being stuck here. It's enough of a motivation to get involved in the attempt, if just being bored wouldn't have been enough - and hey, archangelic powers might come in handy... that is, if she can put up with his being a dick long enough to tell him what to do, which (since this is Gabriel, who is rather an expert in the field of being a dick) might not be the case.

[afallenstar]

Anna wasn't going to get involved. Honestly, she's one of the few people here who's probably more happy at Cape Kore than at home, but then they took Balthazar. That was pretty much the last straw for her, which is what makes her decision for her.

She walks out from behind a building, just as serious and emotionless as she had been in her last transmission over the network, and when she approaches Sharon her voice is set, calm and fiercely determined. "How are we doing this, then."

Re: Meeting Up

[plaidsamurai]

Logan absolutely hates this; he's told Sharon his opinion on blindly running into the woods before. He'd already tried it, and if he wasn't who he was, what he was, then he'd be dead now. He didn't want Sharon, or any of his other fellow captives for that matter, dead. The second reason he really didn't want to do this right now was that he was looking for Laura, who might be feral, who might be in the woods and who might attack them. And then there was the chance that they did escape, he wouldn't be able to go, not without Laura.

So why was he making his way out into the woods? He knew he could help keep Sharon and the others from getting dead, that's why.

He scanned the edge of the woods, tilting his head to catch Sharon's scent and followed it easily, claws out and ready for trouble.

[manofiron]

Sharon tells him to come armed, so he brings what weapons he has. The most visible is an old hunting knife, long and honed to razor-sharpness, strapped to his belt in a worn leather sheath. There's a smaller one hidden in in his boot. He's hardly proficient in the use of knives in combat, but at least he has something. But that's mostly for show. His greatest weapon is hidden by layers of cloth, safe beneath his shirts and his jacket. It's the contingency plan, the worst case scenario-last ditch option if there's something standing between them and the way home. He can overload the reactor on purpose, turn it into a devastating bomb, and buy everyone else time to escape.

When he reaches the forest, he keeps to the outskirts of the group. This is Sharon's show. He's only there to help ensure that if the plan can succeed, it will. The rest is unimportant.

Re: Meeting Up

[pursuitofcappiness]

Steve's there, shield on his back and whatever else he could scrape together in slings of sweaters and blankets over his shoulder. Foodstuffs, drinking water...

His head's held high but he'd be hard-pressed to find a time he felt lower heading out to war. He let them take her, probably to wherever they took Dr. Banner, probably to be experimented on. He wants answers.

[rigging]

Jesse has no idea what he's doing, but he's got his lead pipe and Galen's trailing along with him. Maybe he doesn't have a weapon that's all badass like the others, but he doesn't care; he can take care of himself. Right now, he can see a few different familiar faces, but he stays close to Galen, ready to protect him if he needs to.

Jesse just wants to help - if they can get out of here and he didn't at least try, he'd feel like a loser.

Left Behind

[agentx13]

Just because some people don't want to fight doesn't mean they don't have anything to do. Keep others safe or be the one being kept safe, loot while the others are gone, freak out with much flailing over the possibilities, whatever. Go nuts and enjoy.

[hark_and_hush]

On hearing the plan, Ruby is torn between wanting to help and wanting to stay away from whatever is about to happen. She doesn't have a good feeling about any of this, so she decides to stay on the sidelines, but she's staying alert at the edge of the woods, ready for any sounds or smells that might change that.

[reluctantsword]

Wallie thinks this is a bad idea. Charging forward blindly is not a good idea, and he knows that far too well. At the same time, he's not sure what other choice they have, and food stocks are running low.

And he misses Jja so much it's painful. If there's a possibility of getting back to her, then he has to try.

He has his sword across his back, and the knife in his boot, and for the occassion he's pulled out the blue kilt he showed up in: easy to move in, unrestricting. He's... well, not exactly ready, but as ready as he will be.

[agentx13]

And now they've got a guy in a kilt. Well. Great.

At least it looks like he can use that sword.

She nods at him as he walks over and holds out a hand. "Sharon Carter. Plan is to go straight through. We get separated, I want you to try and stick with Coulson and his team if at all possible. That good with you?"

She looks over his shoulder back toward the town. Come on, Hulk. Where are you?

Ambushed by everything

[theshield_agent]

((ooc: This thread is for misc fighting. If you have a plan for something specific with specific characters, start your own thread for it and label it as such. This thread isn't going to have a tagging order, but to keep it moving and because not everyone does an equal amount of action in a situation like this. Jump in. Jump over other characters. This is a messy battle and everyone is everywhere. Don't start multiple sub-threads in this thread. It is one thread. Tangents might happen, but don't plan them.

You've got giant mechanical bears, machine gun fire from all possible directions that no one can see the source of, land mines and possibly a few leftover dire wolves and saber-toothed cats. Have at it.

If you are in this thread, ftlog track it, because there's no guarantee anyone will reply to each tag, but that doesn't mean things aren't moving forward.))


It wasn't long into the woods before they started to hear strange noises. Phil raised his rifle just in time for a giant mechanical bear to charge at the group.

He dove behind a tree, not bothering to wast a shot on the hulking metal thing. "Take cover!"

Re: Ambushed by everything

[pursuitofcappiness]

Take cover? Not likely.

Steve throws the shield and aims it at the bear's head, and if it's not enough to slow it down, then maybe it can at least distract it long enough to get people ready. He catches the disc, readying for another shot when he hears more noises coming from elsewhere.

team squish or be squished (anna, kenzi, galen, sherlock?? i am probably forgetting people)

[rigging]

So of course, he's put in the defensive section, but Jesse is not an on-the-defensive sort of person. So that means that he's heading off to try and squirm his way past the random explosions and things to get him, Galen, and Kenzi through. Of course, at some points he loses track of them, gets distracted - but this is now, and they're running and they'll collect anybody they want on the way.

Of course, things go badly, as they always do.

Jesse reaches and grabs for Galen and Kenzi to jerk them back as a land mine explodes in front of them, set off by a dire wolf that didn't see it; it's far away that they're not hurt but still, it's close, and Jesse's left cursing up a storm.

[gleans]

"FUCK--!"

Galen crouches immediately, reaching across Jesse and Kenzi and trying to keep his eyes on the explosion and his companions at the same time. Shit, he knew this wouldn't go well.

"We should back up -- watch out. Maybe they'll set them all off themselves!"

hulk smashing

[greenisnteasy]

[OOC: Fight with the Hulk, take a breather with the Hulk, idek idek, if you want to get CR with him come over here! Multiple people in one thread is a okay or we can do a one-on-one.]

Oh, he hates the metal ones that look like him. They only look like him, though; they sure aren't as strong as him, and the Hulk thinks his favorite thing to do is punch their heads off. It's like a game -- not a game he's ever played, because he hasn't played any games, but it's something half-remembered and poorly-formed, something about robots and rockin' 'em and sockin' 'em.

The little wolves are stupid. Their teeth are sharp and they jump high but they go even farther when he throws them. This is fun in the sense that there's plenty for him to do, and he does so little, but he doesn't feel like he's getting anywhere. Everything just keeps coming.

And there are all these humans fighting... with him, which means he has to keep an eye on them.

if jesse doesn't get to ride on the hulk's back at some point i'm gonna be sorely disappointed

[rigging]

See, Jesse's not expecting the giant green dude to go stomping past, so when he does, you'll have to excuse him for shrieking a little and almost falling on his ass. Wow, that is a big... a big... what is it? Who is it?

Not that it matters so much in the next instant, considering one of the mechanical bears launches itself at him. Jesse doesn't get pinned, thankfully, but there's only so much he can do with the metal pipe, which is why he's been avoiding the non-living attackers as much as possible.

Jesse manages to hold his own decently, but the thing is backing him up against a tree. Maybe he can... ride the bear, Jesse thinks idly as he clangs at the stupid bear's mouth.

[manofiron]

Without the magic Loki imbued him with last time, Tony’s not much use against the robots. He’s not strong enough to take them on hand-to-hand and his knife can’t penetrate the metal. There’s always the arc reactor, but it’s one use only and the situation isn’t dire enough to use it. What he can do is take on a saber-toothed cat, and that’s ultimately what he does.

It surprises him, catches him away from the body of the group, and after a scuffle that seems to last forever and in reality is only about three minutes, he manages to lose the thing. Not kill it. Tony’s monumentally bad at killing things. But he does drive it off, and he heads back to the group, hoping no one died while he was distracted.

Moving through the trees, wiping at a cut over his eyebrow, Tony finds himself in front of the Hulk. Once, he would have jumped at the chance to talk to the guy. Now, he just gives him a wan smile.

“You doing okay, Hulk?”

HOPE THIS IS OKAY

[gleans]

Staying back is hard, but Galen has no way of actually fighting back. He's always wished he could learn something that might - as Brad always put it - be useful in a zombie apocalypse, but so far all he's managed to glean since high school is some self-defense tips from Daphne the Tiny Black Belt. Right now, he's wishing he'd ever bothered with that 'learn archery' part of his bucket list.

Staying a little ways back from the battle heat with Anna doesn't mean missing any of the action, though, it seems; Bruce's big green, uh, problem is coming his way, and Galen isn't quite sure how to react!

"Uh, hey... Bruce?" He calls up. Fuck, what did he call the green guy? "Shit. Uh. Hulk? You need anything?" Wow, hi, this guy is huge and terrifying.

Re: hulk smashing

[reluctantsword]

Wallie's breathing hard, and he's a bit scratched up, but he's running on adrenaline and enjoying himself more than he should be. Later, when he's fully in control, he'll hate himself for this thread of bloodlust he's inherited from Shonsu.

And there's Bruce. No, not Bruce, the Hulk. The divide there is a lot cleaner than the one between Wallie and Shonsu, and Wallie has enough issues dealing with Shonsu's subconscious. He can understand why that distinction is important.

"Hey!" In a brief moment of calm between assaults, Wallie can't quite resist calling. "Glad we're on the same side this time around, buddy."

Medic/Evac deus ex machina option: activate!

[afallenstar]

It's chaos.

But then again, this isn't the first time this has happened to Anna. She's fought in wars since before most of these people's ancestors even existed, and the difference here is nothing is equipped to take on angels, the opposition isn't prepared for that and that at least is an advantage. It seems to be the only one they have, really.

She has her blade out - though no one would have seen her arrive with one - and she's right in the thick of things. Anna might be fallen, but she's spent a far greater deal of her lifetime playing the soldier than rebelling. This comes naturally, and as she drags a direwolf away from someone and kills it with ease, she's watching everyone rather frantically. It's no good trying to keep a secret if there's no one here to keep it a secret from, and she actually cares about the fate of a lot of the people stuck here with her.

She'll just have to worry about an explanation later. For now, she just needs to make sure no one dies on her watch.

Re: Medic/Evac deus ex machina option: activate!

[agentx13]

Sharon hits a tree hard nearby, grunting as she takes the force on her shoulder. Damn mechanical bears.

She falls to the ground and forces herself back to her feet. The suit Tony had made her could only absorb so much of the hit, and she knows, knows, her shoulder is going to be sore tomorrow. She rolls her arm in a slow circle as she checks out the situation and spots Anna.

She doesn't waste time asking how Anna is holding up. They're both soldiers.

"Keep an eye on those kids. I shouldn't have let them come. If we pull through this..." She gives Anna's sword an appreciative look. "Can that thing cut through metal?"

Whoops everyone can ignore this thread//Angel Radio

[afallenstar]

[ooc: this is just so I can keep track of what goes on conversation-wise between Anna and Gabriel, since flinging a million links at Gabriel's mun would be horrible and irritating. Continue on your business, folks!]

[afallenstar]

Somewhere around here We need to get them closer. As close to the edge as possible. I'll help, but can you make it look like it was you?